With 30 years of rapid economic advancement in China, there has been growing disparities of public services and divisions between urban and rural communities. To address this, participatory budgeting was implemented in China on a massive scale, particularly in the municipality of Chengdu over the period of 2009-2012. The Chengdu...

Yanjian county had long been suffering from a low rate of financial self-sufficiency, though this was largely mitigated when the county-supervised village finance system was implemented in 2008. As a result, in 2012, the county government of Yanjian created a participatory budgeting project in two of its townships: Miaobai and Dousha.